incoherency, tu quoque, exculpation, sophistical, blamelessness, apologia, blameworthiness, inexactitude, turpitude, wrongheadedness, clownishness, dissembling, disproof, repugnancy, accusative, refutations, ambiguousness, unjustness, theologizing, dogmatist, charlatanry, harlotry, inarticulateness, explications, hyperboles, reductio ad absurdum, elide, gratuitousness, epiphenomenon, guiltiness, apologizer, casuistry, misspeaks, monism, speciousness, split infinitive, gnostics, unnaturalness, abasement, prevarication, deism, similitude, aforethought, inefficacy, flagrancy, determinist, misplaced modifier, monstrousness, inuendo, auxiliary verb, reactionism, venial sin, romanticization, expiation, dilatoriness, dilettantism, ipse dixit, enormities, reductionism, inexplicability, wilfulness, conflation, sophistry, misguidance, repugnantly, tautologies, haphazardness, disingenuity, quiddity, imbecility, hearer, res gestae, apologetics, inelegance, solecism, inadvertence, hairsplitting, surplusage, barbarisms, circumlocution, gendering, disingenuousness, facetiousness, gnosticism, mens rea, simpliciter, deceptiveness, revisionism, metonymy, copout, abjectness, repentance, immoralities, pithier, condign, pompousness, contrition, hegelian dialectic, roguery, prolixity, discomfiting, emendation, amends, excuse, recompense, reparation, justification, mitigation, alleviation, indemnification, apology, clue, consolation, pretence, purification, atonement, avail, blame, claim, comfort, encouragement, excuses

decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down

mitigation, palliation